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Old 22nd Dec 2019, 1:43 pm   #1091
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Default Re: The Audiophoolery Thread.

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Oh, come on! Really?? This sort of thing should be against the law ��
The ASA thought it was! But he got the judgement overturned on appeal: https://www.asa.org.uk/rulings/russ-...13-228690.html

I was told he used to have a trick, whereby he connected one of his fancy mains IEC leads to a kitchen radio to show the improvement. The story went that the radio had a very crude unregulated PSU,.which gave just enough voltage for a passable volume. The stock IEC cable was knobbled with a resistor. When the phool lead was plugged in, voila! A couple of extra dB! This story is heresay and I repeat it here with the disclaimer that I shall delete the post if his lawyer gets uppity -)
I know Russ and his small 12 person team up in Kendal pretty well. And they are all honourable, straight-up people. There is absolutely no way that Russ would get up to that sort of shenanigans.

Also, I was responsible for getting the ASA ruling overturned after a full day of emissions and immunity tests at 3C Test at Silverstone http://www.3ctest.co.uk/ . Faced with hard evidence, the ASA withdrew their ruling.
And very often, so are fortune tellers. To have a belief in something that is to many others, crazy, is not against the law. But it can and often does encompass a very grey area where money can be made.
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